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L'étude du sens (dans ses dimensions sémantiques et pragmatiques) fait partie du cursus de base en sciences du langage, en philosophie et en psychologie. Plus généralement, elle concerne tous ceux qui s'intéressent au langage et à son utilisation dans la communication. Avec l'essor des sciences cognitives, la sémantique et la pragmatique ont connu des évolutions récentes considérables. L'ouvrage propose une introduction claire et complète à ces domaines classiques et offre l'essentiel des connaissances en la matière. De plus, au fil des chapitres, il retrace leur progression afin d'inclure les concepts les plus récents (relation entre théorie de l'esprit et pragmatique, la pragmatique vériconditionnelle, la notion de concepts ad hoc). Par ailleurs, cet ouvrage met en regard sémantique et pragmatique. Un tel rapprochement permet de fournir une vision globale et cohérente du sens linguistique, en montrant également quels sont les points de frontières entre ces disciplines. Conçu en douze chapitres (qui se terminent par des questions de révision permettant à chacun de vérifier ses connaissances), l'ouvrage se veut un outil pédagogique et clair pour toux ceux - étudiants, enseignants, praticiens en langue et linguistique, philosophie, psychologie, communication, sociologie - qui veulent se familiariser avec ces différents concepts.

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This is a ground-breaking work that offers a new explanation of the power and popularity of literary fictional texts. It does this by explaining the multiple dimensions of any fictional text and why it is that fictional literature cannot be reduced to a subset of these dimensions. This book offers an expansion of the field of pragmatics, "the philosophy of the act," in which the three categories of fictional actors--author, character and reader--can be given their due. It achieves this by bringing together schools of thought that are too often kept apart: Anglo-American pragmatics and European philosophy. Drawing on a range of thinkers, from Charles Morris and John Searle to Friedrich Nietzsche, M. M. Bakhtin and Georg Lukács, the book applies a unique framework to a range of modern fictional texts. Key concepts here are ethical intention and the agon of authorship.

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Semantics --- Pragmatics

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The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex history of medieval pragmatic theory and ideas and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses. Pragmatic thinking about language and communication are revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and literature. Part historical reconstruction, part social history, part language theory, Amsler supplements the usual materials for the history of medieval linguistics and discusses the pragmatic implications of grammatical treatises on the interjection, Bacon's sign theory, logic texts, Chaucer's poetry, inquisitors' accounts of heretic speech, and life writing by William Thorpe and Margery Kempe. Medieval and contemporary pragmatic theory are contrasted in terms of their philosophical and linguistic orientations. Aspects of medieval pragmatic theory and practice, especially polysemy, equivocation, affective speech, and recontextualization, show how pragmatic discourse informed social controversies and attitudes toward sincere, vague, and heretical speech. Relying on Bakhtinian dialogism, critical discourse analysis, and conversation analysis, Amsler situates a key period in the history of linguistics within broader social and discursive fields of practice.

Linguistics --- Pragmatics --- History --- Philosophy.